Moscow stories
By: Loren R. Graham.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Graham, Loren R. -- Travel -- Soviet Union.; Graham, Loren R. -- Travel -- Russia (Federation); Science -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union.; Science -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation); Soviet Union -- Intellectual life.; Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991.; Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life -- 1991-; Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Learning to learn about Russia and Communism; title: The communism problem in Farmersburg; title: Technological competition and the Cold War; title: Student days at Moscow University; title: No singing allowed at Moscow University; title: Lennie in the workers' paradise; title: Rural Russia and the forbidden fish; title: An American sit-in and a Russian riot; title: The fate of my closest Russian friend; title: The vodka caper; title: Research in the USSR; title: The meaning of science in Russia; title: The American colony in the Soviet Union; title: The biggest fraud in biology; title: Peter Kapitsa, a man of many parts; title: I break into the ambassador's house; title: The bravery of Bukharin's widow; title: Filming refuseniks and dissidents in Moscow; title: Intelligence, the Cold War, and security concerns; title: The scholar who disappeared; title: Being followed; title: Spies and scholars; title: From the USSR to post-communist Russia; title: A man of fervor; title: The Soviet Union and I collapse together; title: An ambiguous funeral; title: George Soros tries to save Russian science and culture; title: Death of an old American communist.